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Karen Bowerman retraces the route of Antarctic explorer Frank Wild, Shackleton's second-in-command, as Wild's ashes are taken to South Georgia for burial next to Shackleton.

Sir Ernest Shackleton has a heroic place in the annals of Antarctic exploration, famously for his expedition on the aptly-named Endurance in 1914.

He intended to cross over the Antarctic landmass.

Instead, his ship became stuck in ice which eventually crushed it.

Shackleton and his crew made a desperate voyage in three small boats to Elephant Island, where they split up.

The men on the island were left under the command of Shackleton's Number two, Frank Wild.

Shackleton and a small team sailed 800 miles to South Georgia, from where they mounted a rescue mission for Wild's group.

Nearly a century on, reporter Karen Bowerman joins a group of Wild's relatives retracing his extraordinary journey to the southern seas.

They are bearing Wild's ashes, which they bury next to Shackleton, on South Georgia.

(Image: Frank Wild (far left) with Sir Ernest Shackleton (second left) and crew aboard the Nimrod. Credit: Getty Images)

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